Scroll Down strange behavior

Question

When scrolling down using the arrow down key, the courser will move till it reaches the last line, then the page will start to scroll upwards one line at a time.

If you keep doing that, MS Project will at some point move the course to the top line and stop scrolling the page upwards, instead it will start to move the courser downwards again until it reaches the last line.

This is very confusing and it does not match behavior from other Office applications. It will not happen if I scroll down using the mouse (click on the down arrow on the right side), it only happens when I scroll down using the down arrow on the keyboard.

How can I disable this behavior?

Answer 1

LaythaSaid,

Pardon my bumping in but do you by chance have scroll lock on? There was a similar problem with scrolling posted on this forum, (I believe), a few months back. I couldn't reproduce it but the user eventually reported back that it was solved by unlocking the scroll. When I activate scroll lock on my keyboard I get some weird scrolling behavior, not exactly what you report, but then I have a Mac keyboard running Windows emulation.

Just a thought.

John

Answer 2

I found an easy way to reproduce the issue:

If the text in the task name is bigger than the width of the column, then the text is wrapped in the cell, so the cell height will increase. When scrolling down using the keyboard, a page-up action will occur when the courser move from the cell with a lot of text to the next cell.

If widen the column, then the problem disappears.

This is very strange behavior. Why would the column width, or cell content determine whether the page should be scrolled by one line or one page?

Answer 3

The active area is where tasks are entered.  The list of tasks should be sequential - do not leave blank lines between the tasks.  Why are you scrolling beyond the list of tasks - I'm not understanding what you are trying to do

Julie

Answer 4

How can I set the active area? I created a new blank project and the behavior could not be reproduced but for the 3 projects I already have, the behavior is there. So it must be something related to some configuration that I made without noticing :(

Answer 5

The behavior is related to the active area of the project plan.  That being said, I can't reproduce what you report.  When I use the arrow keys on my keyboard, the tasks scroll up and when I reach the last task, continuing to down arrow, continues to keep the "active" cell at the lower part of the screen and scrolls blank rows up.

Julie